Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe did not attend Monday's three-nation Commonwealth meeting in Nigeria, over an unprocedural invitation letter from Australian conference chair, government officials said.
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Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Leaders from Kenya's ruling Kanu party faction, Rainbow Alliance, as well as those from the opposition are demanding that presidential, parliamentary and civic elections be held under a new constitution, which was proposed last week.
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Cairo- Egypt (PANA) -- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has stressed the importance for Arab governments to coordinate diplomatic efforts on the international scene in order to find a solution to the crisis in the Middle East.
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Abidjan- Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) -- In their continuing search for rebels, Ivorian security forces have put to the torch the residence of former Prime Minister Alassane Dramane Ouattara, according to sources close to his Republicans Union party.
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Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- A four-member Ghanaian delegation led by Foreign Affairs Minister Hackman Owusu-Agyemang left Accra on Sunday for Cote d'Ivoire on a sub-regional mediation initiative to help calm down the upheaval in that country.
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Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- About 100 French soldiers mainly "marines" and paratroopers arrived in Abidjan Saturday night three days after the outbreak of military mutiny in Cote d'Ivoire.
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Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- In response to complaints from politicians and thousands of frustrated prospective voters, Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Saturday, announced the extension of the country-wide voter registration by one day to Sunday.
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Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The Mauritian government Saturday strongly condemned the "attempted coup in Cote d'Ivoire against the democratically elected government of President Laurent Gbagbo".
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Bouake- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Mutineers in Bouake, Cote 'Ivoire's second largest city, some 290-km north of Abidjan, have reportedly started drafting civilian youths, including those detained in police stations, in readiness for battle with government troops.
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Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Namibia on Friday became the 8th African Union (AU) member state to ratify the protocol to the treaty establishing the African Economic Community (AEC) relating to the Pan-African Parliament.
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Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- Burkina Faso has called on its citizens living on the border with Cote d'Ivoire and truck drivers in the area, to be extra vigilant and report any suspicious movements to the appropriate authorities.
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Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- On the morrow of a nation-wide address in which President Laurent Gbagbo alleged that the current putsch in Cote d'Ivoire had external connections, security forces and students attacked Burkinabe nationals in Abidjan Saturday.
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Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- President Laurent Gbagbo, in a nation-wide address Friday played down reports of a mutiny within the Army, alleging instead that Cote d'Ivoire by external forces.
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Paris- France (PANA) -- Angolan soldiers are moving in to help Ivorian government troops recapture the city of Bouake, which is still under the control of rebel soldiers who mutinied Wednesday night, the French daily 'Figaro' intimated Saturday.
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Paris- France (PANA) -- French Defence Minister Michele Alliot- Marie Friday said that French troops stationed in the West African country would not intervene in the current turmoil because the mutiny was "a purely internal affair.
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Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo, who returned home Friday night from a visit in Italy, said the bloody Thursday mutiny in his country was a coup attempt against his government, and he appealed to his security forces to remain "vigilant at all times.
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Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Some 270 people were reportedly killed and 300 others injured in Thursday's fighting in when 750 demobilised soldiers reportedly mutinied in Abidjan and two other cities, Ivorian military sources said in Abidjan Saturday.
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Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- When the Commonwealth troika on Zimbabwe meets in Nigeria's capital city of Abuja Monday, a possible expulsion of Zimbabwe from the group for a deteriorating human rights situation will be on the agenda.
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Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Members of the Association of Diocesan Catholic Clergy of Malawi (ADCCOM) have warned the ruling United Democratic Front (UDF) against amending the constitution to allow President Bakili Muluzi to run for a third term.
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Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- Sixty three percent of Moroccans who will cast their votes on 27 September to elect 325 members of parliament said they did not understand the list system the country has chosen for the election, according to a poll published Friday by the newspaper Al Ahdath Al Maghribia.
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Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- The Burundi government has announced an ambitious programme of democratic, administrative and economic governance, the implementation of which would require funding to the tune of 90 million US dollars over the next three years.
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Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- There was uneasy calm Friday in the Ivorian capital, which was under night curfew, with residents still indoors and vehicles belonging to the Abidjan Transport Company (SOTRA) off the road.
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Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- The speaker of the Botswana national assembly, Ray Molomo, has appointed consultants to study and recommend how parliament can operate independently of the office of the president.
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Freetown- Sierra Leone (PANA) -- The Sierra Leonean locality of Lunsa in Port Loko has, under the Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) programme of the UN Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL), acquired a refuse dump and a mini-stadium.
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Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The South African government has expressed concern at the suicide bombing in central Tel Aviv on Thursday and the subsequent Israeli siege on the offices of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
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Paris- France (PANA) -- The democratisation efforts in Africa should not be sacrificed on the altar of the anti-terrorist war, Pascal Boniface, director of the International and Strategic Relations Institute (IRIS), said Friday in Paris.
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Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- Scores of former rebel UNITA fighters quartered at Capaia in eastern Lunda-Sul province are reportedly quitting the camp in search of food, as relief supplies were not forthcoming.
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Bouake- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Mutineers still holding out in the central Ivorian city of Bouake, some 290 km north of Abidjan, are poised for what observers see as an imminent showdown with loyalists troops.
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Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Amara Essy, the Interim President of the African Union Commission, has condemned the September 9 massacre of 183 people, including 112 civilians in Burundi's Gitega Province, as an "odious act".
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Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- The Ivorian economic hub of Abidjan was quiet well into Friday afternoon in the wake of Thursday's mutiny, which the government insists was a "coup attempt.
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